Place cells and concept neurons are defined by a rise in firing rate at a particular location or for a particular person or object. Neurons without such a rise remain unlabeled, although they keep fir...

As experts questioned the ethics of the study, documents show that expiring funds forced a rushed vote in Denmark, where the researchers’ institute is based

Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review

Behavioral neuroscience; Cognitive neuroscience

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

ICLR 2027 has received more submissions than all previous years (2013–2026) combined

Pending move comes over the objections of the NIH director.

A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped thei...

A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is proposing yet another significant change in its grant review process, moving away from numerical scores for applications.

Memories leave lasting physical changes at the synaptic level. Although stable, larger spines are thought to support memory, the high turnover of dendritic spines and the drifting of neuronal represen...

In this large-scale study, Banellis and colleagues investigate the links between mental health symptoms and interoception by measuring cardiac and respiratory interoceptive sensitivity and relating th...

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.

Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e

Scientific Data - The Brain, Body, and Behavior Dataset (BBBD): Multimodal Recordings during Educational Videos

Throughout the mammalian cortex, populations of neurons must work together to enact behaviors. While population recordings in motor cortex have revealed many aspects of when neurons fire during behavi...

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) trained for image recognition have demonstrated remarkable conceptual similarities to the primate ventral visual pathway, but their standard feedforward architectu...

The NEJM editors understand the threat of the proposed federal grant review changes

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

Astrocytes, the most abundant type of glial cell, play a fundamental role in memory. Despite most hippocampal synapses being contacted by an astroc...

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Reflections on catastrophic interference, plasticity, and learning for the future in the era of large language models

Computer science; Social sciences; Education